This is educational because it can teach/encourage kids to play the real instrument. The only thing I don't like is the instruments, If you have the Wii version, a guitar is about $90 and a drum set is about $200, though you can just use a mic, you can't play without a mic, guitar, or drum set. I only find 2 bad songs, "You Give Love a Bad Name" and "Suddenly I See". I give this 3 stars because there's only 45 songs, and unlike Rock Band 2, for some reason the notes don't seem to register as good. The good thing is you can turn on an automatic kick drum for drums, because these drum charts and guitar charts are way too hard for kids, but you can't fail out of a song, and there's super easy mode. In guitar, you only have to strum. In drums, you can hit any pad. In vocals, you can sing as high or low as you want.